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Letting spouse get you off for audience?
This article was in the newspaper this morning. Would you ever consider doing this or going to view this if you were a student?
Excerpts from article:
Northwestern University acknowledged today that an unusual demonstration was held on campus last week in which students observed a naked woman being penetrated by a sex toy.
The sex act was performed in front of about 100 students in psychology professor John Michael Bailey?s human sexuality class. The demonstration occurred after class, and attendance was optional.
?The students find the events to be quite valuable, typically, because engaging real people in conversation provides useful examples and extensions of concepts students learn about in traditional academic ways,? Bailey said in a prepared statement Wednesday night
After an initial discussion at Ryan Family Auditorium, the class was told that a couple was going to demonstrate the use of a sex toy and female orgasm.
?Both Professor Bailey and myself gave them five or six warnings about what was about to happen and it would be graphic,? Melvoin-Berg said.
The woman undressed and got on stage with her male partner, who used a device that looks like a machine-powered saw with a phallic object instead of a blade. Melvoin-Berg said the couple are exhibitionists who enjoy having people watch them have sex, and they were not paid for the demonstration.
Jim Marcus said he and his fianc? hadn?t planned to show off the sex act at first, but decided to do so after the class watched a video on female orgasm that he thought was unrealistic. They already had brought the equipment to show as part of the discussion.
?I was more than happy to. We have fun with it,? Kroll said. ?I?m an exhibitionist. I enjoy the attention, being seen by other people. It was entertaining because there were a lot of curious minds, so that was cool.?
?What we did was not designed to titillate people, but to educate people,? Marcus said. He said the demonstration was accompanied by a discussion about safety and consent, for example.
Once the demonstration began, Smith said, ?there was a lot of covering of the mouth like ?Oh my gosh.? It was pretty quiet ? I didn?t really see people take affront, but they were engaged with the experience.??
Melvoin-Berg called it an educational experience for the students, and said it lasted about three minutes. ?We wanted to share not only our lifestyles and talk about it, but demonstrate what we do in our personal lives,? he said. The students, he said, ?seemed to be incredibly pleased. We had a number of them that got closer and closer.?
An Evanston police department spokesman said Northwestern police would be responsible for determining whether the demonstration violated any local ordinances. University spokesman Alan Cubbage said ?the issue has not been raised,? and nobody had filed a complaint with the police department.
Bailey?s statement said it was too early to say whether he regretted the demonstration, but, ?I certainly have no regrets concerning Northwestern students, who have demonstrated that they are open-minded grownups rather than fragile children.?
According to a description of Bailey?s class, it ?will treat human sexuality as a subject for scientific inquiry,? with topics including human mating, sexual arousal and sexual jealousy.
Re: Letting spouse get you off for audience?
WOW. There were definitely not any classes like this at the little Christian College that I went to!
And no, no auience for me, thank you!
Very interesting. They're all adults and it was optional, so I don't have a problem.
As for doing it myself, nope.
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermWould I do this in front of people? Hell, no!
Would I allow DH anywhere near me with a contraption that could even be passingly described as "looking like a saw"? Double hell no!
Do I have a sudden and overwhelming urge to look into going back to school? Yes...yes, I believe I do.
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermWe may leave the windows open on occasion, as in order to see anything, we'd have to be pressed against the window or someone would have to come actually look in (the house is on a bit of a hill), but that's as exhibitionist as it gets. I'd never be ok with being on stage like that.
No idea why the police should get involved, though. It's a matter of study in this case, and everyone was warned beforehand. Whoever complained is probably just mad they didn't know or get to see.
Do dogs count??
I heard about this on the news last night but they didn't say what the sex act was, so this is interesting to me. I don't have an issue with it, they were all adults and the viewing was after class and optional, no harm, no foul.
I wouldn't do it but to each their own.
Ok this is one of the reasons I don't like sawzalls. (if any of you saw my FB post). They creep me out, and people use them for things like this. There was even a story of a NJ couple who used a sawzall, but they just put the toy OVER the saw instead of modding it.
That ended in an emergency room trip. It's called that for a reason, because it can saw through anything...people are dumb sometimes.
As for if I would ever do it in front of people? No, that'd be awkward to just have people watch.
Wait.. you heard about us???!
...and no, I would never do this. I don't have a problem that it was offered in this scenerio, but I would never be the chick on stage.